LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION MEDIATED BY THE SOCIAL MEDIA – AN ANALYSIS OF E

Abstract

The last two decades have shown the extremely significant role of the development of social media. This article summarises our explorations of the applicability of social media in education. The study involved an analysis associated with dividing social networking services and selecting twelve that were then subjected to an in-depth desk research analysis. As a result of this study, we were able to select seven social networking services which potentially may be useful for educational and didactic purposes. We also pointed out several other functions of all the analysed social networking services and described those practicalities in detail.